Pennsylvania: Cashkrieg

Short of staying off the streets,
cutting off the newspaper, unplugging the radio, boycotting TV and
locking the mailbox, the only way a Pennsylvanian can ignore this
fall's cacophonous gubernatorial campaign is by clearing out of the
state. In one of the nation's most flamboyant and free-spending races,
Democrat Milton J. Shapp, 53, and Republican Lieutenant Governor
Raymond P. Shafer, 49, by the morning of Nov. 8 will have lavished at
least $3,600,000 on the cashkrieg campaign for the governorship.

Though the G.O.P. plans to spend $1,600,000 of that sum, Millionaire
Shapp...